I am a representative of the Fair Education Alliance (FEA). The FEA is a coalition of over 200 organisations which aims to tackle inequality in the education system. My involvement centres around the FEA priority working towards a cultural transformation in approach to wellbeing and inclusion in the education system.
I have extensive experience as an external educational consultant including as research and advisory consultant for the Accelerated Modern Languages Acquisition (AMLA) project. I have delivered INSETs nationally for behaviour, primary languages, wellbeing, gifted and talented, English as an Additional Language and working with adults.
I was academic and research lead for a School Centred Teacher Training Partnership for eight years and continue to deliver training in primary language teaching for SCITT trainees.
I have acted as peer reviewer and advisor for a range of organisations including National Strategies, OCR (marking and moderation), SEN journal and British Film Institute.
I have participated in several national and international conferences across a range of educational topics and have experience of school governance.
Conference Presentations:
Mrs Wendy Cobb (2021) Changing Situations - Bringing Innovations BTSC Professional Development Conference, Pakistan [conference key note]
Dr Christian Beighton, Mrs Wendy Cobb and Mrs Hilary Welland (2020) Conflict, collaboration and counterpoint: analysing iterative research techniques within the research development narrative, ESREA [Conference or workshop item]
Dr Christian Beighton, Mrs Wendy Cobb, Mrs Hilary Welland, Publish or perish? Using iterative research techniques to trouble the research development narrative. [Conference or workshop item]
Mrs Wendy Cobb, Dr Emily Lau, and Ms Zoe Wallington, The limits of labels and measures. Exploring the use of formative assessment to measure social and emotional learning, mindsets and character traits in Blackpool, BSA Social Mobility Conference [Conference or workshop item]
Mrs Wendy Cobb and Mrs Jennifer Shearman, The power of partnership for social and emotional health – a different kind of teaching OMEP [Conference or workshop title]
Mrs Wendy Cobb and Mr. Nick Haisman-Smith, Creating Emotionally Healthy Learning Communities through Research Informed Partnerships, TEAN [conference or workshop title]
Mrs Wendy Cobb and Mr David Matthews, A KS2/3 model for effective cross-phase learning, Association of Language Learning, [conference or workshop title]
Mrs Wendy Cobb, Cross-curricular initiatives in cross-phase partnerships, Building on Firm Foundations, Association of Language Learning [conference or workshop title]